AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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R. Reverie — In JVIemoriam. 



CHAHLES ELMER UPTON. 



Tlie fading- dreams of by-gone years 

 Come thronging- 'round to-niglit, 



Tl)e floating mists of unshed tears 

 Keep gath'ring as I write. 



The fleeting joys of life's ghxd May, 



The home upon the hill. 

 The happy scenes of each last day, 



Seem ling'ring- near me still. 



Those golden hours for aye are fled 

 Adown time's dark'ning -way ; 



My youth lies mold'ring with the dead 

 The Past is old and gray. 

 Placerville, Calif. 



Hueries ajid Replies. 



Coverli for Hives wtien Wm Bees. 



Query 804. — Expecting to move 100 

 colonies of bees in the Spring, and wire 

 covering being expensive for so many 

 hives, what material can I use in cloth 

 which the bees will not cat through '? — 

 Ontario. 



Common domestic, provided it is not 

 left on the hive very long. — J. M. Ham- 



BAU6H. 



Stick to the wire-cloth. You only 

 need enough to cover the entrance. — C. 

 C. Miller. 



I would move them early, and then 

 there will be no need of wire gauze, ex- 

 cept at the opening ; especially if a cool 

 time is chosen. — A. J. Cook. 



We know of nothing as safe and as 

 cheap as wire-cloth ; M of a square foot 

 of it will usually insure a colony against 

 loss by want of air. — Dadant & Son. 



Wire-cloth is enough better to pay the 

 difference in the expense, and I doubt if 

 any other cloth could be safely used as 

 a substitute.— G. M. Doolittle. 



I know of no cloth that I should dare 

 to use instead of wire-cloth. I should 

 try to move them so early that the board 

 cover would do. — R. L. Taylor. 



I should prefer the wire covering to 

 anything I now know of. The annoy- 

 ance of loose bees would much over- 



balance the expense of the wire-cloth. — 

 Mrs. J. N. Heater. 



Any cheap cloth will do for short dis- 

 tances. But I think you will find wire- 

 cloth the cheapest in the end, if you 

 moye any distance. — H. D. Cutting. 



You do not say how far you are going 

 to move them, nor at what time in the 

 Spring you expect to do it. If the 

 weather be cool, distance not great, and 

 time of confinement not long, I doubt if 

 you need either wire or cloth. — Eugene 

 Secor. 



Almost anything that is pretty open, 

 like cheese-cloth or mosquito netting, in 

 two thicknesses, X of an inch apart. A 

 little more labor and a few more cleats 

 between the cloth will take place of the 

 more expensive wire. It is supposed 

 you are going with the bees ; if you are 

 trusting them with railroad men, use 

 wire. — James Heddon. 



Nothing, which they will not cut 

 through in time. Burlap is as good as 

 anything you can get in the way of cloth. 

 But if you use the cheapest grade of 

 wire-cloth, which is just as good as any, 

 there will be but a trifling difference in 

 cost. For me, wire-cloth would be de- 

 cidedly the more economical. — J. A. 

 Green. 



You do not say how far you are to 

 move your bees, and I do not know as it 

 makes any difference. If you move 

 them while the weather is cool, the only 

 ventilation they need will be an ordi- 

 nary-sized entrance ; but if they are to 

 be moved by a few miles, and it can be 

 done in the night, the entrance need not 

 be guarded. — A. B. Mason. 



I think that I would use the wire-cloth 

 covering. I have moved bees short dis- 

 tances with cheese-cloth covering, but 

 it is risky. It would be a bad job to 

 have the bees get out while on the road, 

 and get after the horses and driver, 

 causing them to run away, and smash up 

 things. — E. France. 



If the time of confinement will be loss 

 than 24 hours, use burlap. Remove 

 the covers of hives, and after placing 

 Hill's device or a block across the 

 frames, cover all over with the burlap. 

 There should be a roomy space above 

 the frames. Use ivire-cloth over the en- 

 trances. If you can, give side and bot- 

 tom ventilation with wire-cloth. — J. P. 

 H. Brown. 



I have moved my apiary by railroad 

 three times, and my method was to 

 cover the entrances of the hives with 



